Pixies’ Mean ‘Magdelena’ Comes to Life in Odd, Arty Video

Alt-icons Pixies continue their return run with the video for “Magdelena,” a freshly shared cut from their surprise release, EP-2. We previously heard the howling, cowbell-bolstered rock stomper “Blue-Eyed Hexe,” but this track trades in a low-and-slow grind not unlike a Queens of the Stone Age cut. In a cool falsetto, Black Francis sings of the song’s cruel titular subject while director Judy Jacob brings the character to life with help from British performance artist Nando Messias. Sandwiches are stolen, black-lit rice falls from the heavens, and there’s some very strange behavior involving a hard-boiled egg. Catch the Boston-reared band on tour via the dates below. For the record, they finally acknowledged that Kim Deal is irreplaceable.

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